A Claude / agent skill that evaluates whether an AI product or side-project idea can realistically make money — scoring it against a fixed rubric so the answer is grounded in demand reality, not enthusiasm.
Pitch it an idea ("a Chrome extension that summarizes articles", "an API that does X") and it walks the idea through five axes:
- Demand hardness — nice-to-have, or can't-work-without-it?
- Niche focus — broad platform, or one sharp use-case?
- Payment willingness — do people already pay for comparable tools?
- Distribution — is there a real channel to reach the target user?
- Unfair advantage — can anyone clone it in a weekend?
It scores each 0–2, names the weakest axis (the real bottleneck), and gives cheap concrete steps to validate that before you build the whole thing.
The guiding principle: the bottleneck of a money-making product is almost never the code — it's demand.
This is a single-file skill. Drop SKILL.md into your agent's skills directory:
- Claude Code —
~/.claude/skills/ai-monetization-evaluator/SKILL.md - Or via the skills CLI:
skills add DQT-bit/ai-monetization-evaluator
Then ask: "Evaluate this idea: …"
Inspired by the patterns catalogued in bleedline/aimoneyhunter, a popular collection of AI side-hustle methods. This skill is an original rubric, not a reproduction of that content.
MIT — see LICENSE.